How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (35 page)

—Daniel Goldin (Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Milwaukee, WI), for
Booksense

By Mameve Medwed

H
OW
E
LIZABETH
B
ARRETT
B
ROWNING
S
AVED
M
Y
L
IFE

M
AIL

H
OST
F
AMILY

T
HE
E
ND OF AN
E
RROR

Credits

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover photograph of Kangxi Period

Chinese bowl © Private Collection, Paul Freeman/Bridgeman Art Library

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

HOW ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SAVED MY LIFE
Copyright © 2006 by Mameve Medwed. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Mobipocket Reader January 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-135971-2

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Table of Contents

Epigraph

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

Fourteen

Fifteen

Sixteen

Seventeen

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Reading Group Guide

Praise

Other Books by Mameve Medwed

Credits

Cover

Copyright

About the Publisher

By Mameve Medwed

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